AHAHAHA! I e-mailed her.

Bless you. I didn't know if she was around, and I was just about to do that.

Did I tell you about our interoffice mail adventure? The one where Jilli sent me some pics of FOB from a KERRANG! issue she'd been going through for MCR stuff?

That is adorable. That is adorable like when my mother came to visit and brought me magazines with articles about Hugh Laurie and Greg Grunberg because she knows I like them adorable.

Oh, Patrick, you are the adorkablist.

I think the only reason he doesn't constantly have someone hugging his dorky little face is because he punches.

"Gore/Obama" fantasies.

And only in this forum could this be read ambiguously.

Regarding Ron Paul and capital punishment, he's come to oppose the federal death penalty, but thinks it's just ducky if the states want to do it. (Note that there have been 3 federal executions in the modern era, compared to 1099 executed by the states, per deathpenaltyinfo.org).

Foreign affairs wise, at least Hilary is known to the international community and probably doesn't trigger guffaws of disbelief.

Don't think Edwards or Obama would trigger guffaws of disbelief either. I think there is too much focus on "what kind of person is this?". Are they honest. Are the phony? Are the authentic? And you know all the evidence is that this is really hard to judge. People who claim they can judge this, when given the opportunity in controlled studies mostly show that they can't. They best predictors are: what have people actually done? What do they say they will do? What are the positions of their main advisers?

I understand the impulse to support Hillary Clinton. She is smart, charismatic, and has some really hateful people as enemies. She probably is highly respected abroad. But the U.S. image abroad won't be changed by what kind of person the next President is. Given that we are guilty of aggressive war, mass detention of innocent civilians, along with "disappearing" and torture, the U.S. will only recover its reputation with words, rather than deeds. We really can't afford a hawk as the President following Bush.

For anyone else who's missing their Stephen Colbert fix during the strike: [link]

I started a fight between a dba and a system dev person and I think I just made a suggestion that they'll both hate equally.

I think my head is going to explode.

I think I just made a suggestion that they'll both hate equally.

Nude Thunderdome fight?

There are certain words I will never associate with coworkers. Nude is one of them.

People seem to have stopped tracking in the fight. Hrm.

Edwards supporter here...if you've seen him speak personally, he seems very real. What seems like too much for TV is actually his real wattage, I think. I like Obama, although some of his missteps are a little embarrassing lately. I actually like Dennis Kucinich quite a lot, despite him being kind of magnetism-free(which he is so consistent about, it's almost his own magnetism.Policy-wise we agree a lot.) Personally, I like HRC, but I liked her a lot more before she decided that everyone should, and What Gud Said.